βthe man who walked the water and tied the whaleβs tail in a knotβ AKA The Black Man with Eyes that Can See Through Stone | Iconoclast | GWOT Marine Corps Vet
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This films ancestor is The Color Purple and Coffy - both films being horrifically anti black both by their misandry and its disdain of the working class (regular) black man and woman
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But urbanization isnβt new or modern. Some of the oldest stories in the world idealize urban life going back to ancient Sumer and ancient Egypt. I donβt think human beings are evolutionarily static at all. We can adapt to many forms of life at scale or not.
Ben Affleck says you're supposed to live in a village and see about 100 people in your entire lifetime
"we weren't made evolutionarily as human beings like we're supposed to be living in a village and see about 100 people in our lifetime"
"that's the vast majority of human history...that's how we did it and I still feel like in a way that's how we're socialized...it's why if you feel left out of a group it's very painful"
"even social media for example you looking at stuff you know damn why is everybody life is so good...that's also is a basic primal thing"
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Soon as I thought I got away from Americaβ¦
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Ford government formalizes framework for expanding police presence in schools thetrillium.ca:443/insider-nβ¦
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Malcolm X
Plato
William Ferris
Name the top 3 philosophers/thinkers of the past you resonate more with:
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Philosopher-King Miron π retweeted
Malcolm X
Fred Hampton
Kwame Ture
Name the top 3 philosophers/thinkers of the past you resonate more with:
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I got one
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How many people really have library cards as adults?
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Nah Plato is better. I feel sorry for Aquinas. A life without reading Plato is a life not lived to its full potential.
Guys I love Plato, I do, but heβs no Aristotle
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Talking to parents about mental health is like discussing Feminism with Taliban
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Putting together a reflection piece on the last year and Iβm very proud of what Iβve been able to do in these last two terms. Most of all, Iβm proud of starting my own philosophical institute using it co-host a podcast with @RakeemShabazz
The institute is a proof of concept of what black male studies can bring to the field of AI and the study of modern technologies of repression. And the goal of disseminating ideas and new research is facilitated through the podcast which has gotten just under 4,000 views in 6 months. I will be writing up the findings of the first data visualization series later this year and look forward to publishing a second before December as well.
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WATCH: Full Video of Plestia Alaqad's Book Talk at Diwan youtu.be/IUrCW8mpb0c?si=Wo44β¦ via @YouTube
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But thatβs the whole point: if you hate black men you also hate black people. What you say about and do to them is a marker for how you will think about and treat all black people. Anti-black misandry is the first principle of anti-blackness.
Because the trailer for "Is God Is" was super fucking obvious, I thought it signaled that there would be some plot twist in the movie itself.
Silly meπ€¦πΏπ€£
I know people are fixated on Black males' portrayal, but for me the movie was dripping with disdain for Blackness as a whole.
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Oh brother
Elon Musk says humans will soon have cybernetic chip implants that will enable "God-like powers" describing the chips as creating "Jesus-level miracles."
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Yes. This is from his essay on Black Power if my memory is correct. I always liked Rodneyβs analysis of race and capitalism and how he took Black Power definitions from the US to their logical conclusion.
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βThe association of wealth with whites and poverty with blacks is not accidental. It is the nature of the imperialist relationship that enriches the metropolis at the expense of the colony i.e. it makes the whites richer and the blacks poorer.β
β Walter Rodney
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Wow
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JUST IN: United Kingdom announces "PoliceAI" to help fight crime β claims it will free up 6 million human officer hours / year.
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βThe black man here in America in every way he can be looked at and examined, is in a pitiful state of sickness. Sick economically. Politically. Mentally. Socially. Spiritually...β β Malcolm X
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One thing I appreciate Adasβs book for is showing that science and technology were more fundamental to how they distinguished themselves from non-westerners than race was. For most groups, colonialism was not a denial of their fundamental capacity for self rule and scientific mastery. But for Black Africans, it did.
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The fact we having these debates almost 7 years after the last #BLM cash grab says a lot. Black people, especially the educated elite, seem to be able to get over the application of deadly force and mass incarceration so fast. All white people gotta do is translate poor niggas dying and being executed in front of the world into some money/attention/programs for them. And then all is forgivenβ¦
And some people will act like this logic and fear of rebellion primarily attached to Black men magically disappeared and doesnβt influence how each gender is treated by White society today
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Molly Geidel is correct that US counterinsurgency in Guatemala under Reagan canonized girlsβ education within its broader arsenal of pacification. But this dynamic is much older. The Filipino-American war and the French colonization of Algeria has similar tactics and rationales.
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